It’s a new dawn, it’s a new day, it’s a new year…Hello! My name is Gouri Prakash. I have been passionate about software testing since I started working in the IT industry. I was first introduced to software testing in a book that was actually about software engineering. This was way back at the turn of the millennium when the Internet bubble was just beginning to burst. While the book itself was an outstanding epic on the practice of software engineering, I found software testing to be a fairly marginalized topic .
Then when I started working in the industry, I was introduced to the idea of being in the know about how to use state-of-the-art, (read outrageously pricey), licensed software testing tools as the way to project value you brought to the table as a tester. I rode that wave for a while only to feel like the main person that I was deceiving was myself. I then moved onto play the role of a product owner where I was in charge of all phases of the software development lifecycle and it blew my mind to see the disproportionate amount of time I spent on testing relative to coding, just to prove that if the code changes were migrated to production, bedlam would not break loose. Real opportunity with respect to testing knocked on my doors when I joined a healthcare IT company and was provided the opportunity to put together a framework for software testing that could be used as the organization’s de facto standard for testing software applications. I fully embraced my role as a manual tester. Even then I had my moments when testers who made use of commercial tools would do their part to dis at me for being me.
I still work in the IT industry, and I still spend a fair amount of time in activities pertinent to software testing. 2020 was a year that gave me ample opportunity to reflect on the practice of software testing and I determined that even though we had come far when it came to technological advances for developing software, software testing still largely remained a field of few tenets and many best practices. So I decided to launch a blog on the topic of software testing with the express intent of researching and discussing testing concepts without the spin. I am not sure where this journey will take me but I do hope that you will join me as I seek to uncover, re-discover, reinvent the wheel, and perhaps more as I look at the ongoing evolution of software testing and attempt to identify the bases that make up the DNA of software testing.
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